Emma's Dress

I have started a new project for my soon to be new baby neice, Kara Ann. She is due to arrive at the beginning of August and wanted to make her a dress. I have finished the back and it is drying on our front porch right now. It is a quick knit and hopefully will be done this week. The pattern is called Emma's Dress (which I have another neice named Emma, but I just dabbled in knitting when she was born). It can be found on Ravelry.

The yarn is Debbie Bliss Rialto DK in eggplant. The pictures don't show true color. It is much darker than this. I like this yarn, it is the first time I have used it and it does split and curl like something fierce. But it is so soft that I would take softness and deal with the splitting and curling. The curling should be cured by the blocking.

This is the up close shot of the diamond eyelet pattern. I just need to go through my button stash and see if I have any pretty buttons for this.

On the home front, we have had a big warm up the last few days. It has been in the 80's and I am enjoying it greatly. Last night I took the boys to the drive in (yes in our little town of 1400 people we do have a drive in) to see the new Indiana Jones movie. They loved it. I couldn't believe that they stayed awake the whole time. The second movie was the new National Treasure which I bought when it first came out on DVD. But it did start raining right towards the end of Indiana Jones, so we just came home.

This is the last week of school for my oldest. The last day is only an hour and I just can't believe that with gas prices the school is willing to have busses pick these kids up for one lousy hour. I don't really know if I'm ready for school to end. I know I don't like the alarm clock, but having both home all day is going to drive me insane.

This last pic is the Pinwheel Baby Blanket (also can be found on Ravelry). My cousin is due is September so I wanted to make her something. I haven't decided on the border yet but will before I get there.